now." So that one great secret of the world's victory lies in the
mighty power of saying "_Now_."

2. The tyranny of the sensual.

I call it _tyranny_, because the evidences of the senses are all
powerful, in spite of the protestations of the reason. In vain you try
to persuade the child that _he_ is moving, and not the trees which
seem to flit past the carriage--in vain we remind ourselves that this
apparently solid earth on which we stand, and which seems so
immoveable, is in reality flying through the regions of space with an
inconceivable rapidity--in vain philosophers would persuade us that
the colour which the eye beholds, resides not in the object itself,
but in our own perception; we are victims of the apparent, and the
verdict of the senses is taken instead of the verdict of the reason.

Precisely so is it with the enjoyments of the world. The man who died
yesterday, and whom the world called a successful man--for what did he
live?--He lived for this world--he gained this world. Houses, lands,
name, position in society--all that earth could give of enjoyments--he
had: he was the man of whom the Redeemer said that his thoughts were
occupied in planning how to pull down his barns and build greater. We
hear men complain of the sordid love of gold, but gold is merely a
medium of exchange for other things: gold is land, titles, name,
comfort--all that the world can give. If the world be _all_, it is
_wise_ to live for gold. There may be some little difference in the
degree of degradation in different forms of worldliness; it is
possible that the ambitious man who lives for power is somewhat higher
than he who merely lives for applause, and he again may be a trifle
higher than the mere seeker after gold--but after all, looking closely